Baldwinella is a genus of marine ray-finned fish from the grouper and sea bass family Serranidae. It was created in 2012 and the name honours Carole C. Baldwin of the Division of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History, recognised her contribution to the study of the Serranidae.[2]

Baldwinella
Baldwinella vivanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: Anthiinae
Genus: Baldwinella
Anderson & Heemstra, 2012
Type species
Pronotogrammus aureorubens

Species edit

There are two species classified within the genus Baldwinella:[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Baldwinella". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  2. ^ William D. Anderson, Jr. & Phillip C. Heemstra (2012). "Review of Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Anthiine Fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Serranidae), with Descriptions of Two New Genera". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series. 102 (2): I-173. JSTOR 41507695.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Baldwinella in FishBase. December 2019 version.